I know it's hot tonight, but please don't leave your window open.
There are guys going about just now dressed as clowns and they're creeping in the windows and slashing people's faces.
🧵 Roger Waters tried for years to get Thom Yorke to use his “important voice” to help the Palestinians, or to at least stop playing shows in Israel and giving “tacit approval” to their system of apartheid, subjugation, occupation, and colonization.
Email he sent him in 2017:
He introduced millions of people to unique food cultures and traditions around the world. He was a brave American foodie! And in this house, Anthony Bourdain is a hero. End of story!
So
- David Lynch couldn’t get funding
- Mike Leigh needs years to get funding for shoestring budget films
- Nancy Meyers had to scrap a star-studded romcom in pre-prod because Netflix backed out
BUT Addison Rae has a multi-picture deal there ?
This industry is a mess.
God it was so nice to have an iconic genius old man die and not have to go through discourse about loving his work even though he did sex crimes or punched his wife
He was the very rare case where all the hype and whispers and buzz couldn't prepare you. You'd grow up hearing about his work, you'd have this picture in your head, then you'd sit down with Blue Velvet and get wrongfooted out of your shoes, same as everyone who came before you.
A devasting, incomprehensible loss but some solace knowing David Lynch's final major work was an 18-hour magnum opus made entirely on his terms. I'll never forget what a staggering experience it was seeing it entirely in a theater. Thank you for all the joy and the nightmares.
David Lynch has reasonable claim to being the most important American director since 1950. moreover, his movies felt like they were made just for you, no matter who you were. They whispered secrets no one else knew. At one point, everybody’s favorite director was David Lynch.
Shoutout to everybody at Netflix who decided not to move forward with all the projects David Lynch wanted to do in his final years. I'm sure all the other stuff you greenlit instead was much better.
While a ceasefire is welcome we must not forget what Israel has done.
They need to be sanctioned and their leadership arrested and prosecuted.
They’ve murdered 100,000 people, mostly kids, and left Gaza as an unliveable wasteland.
FUCK ISRAEL